Ben Livshin

Ben Livshin (13 June 1862-5 November 1906) was a Latvian Jewish revolutionary and member of the SR Combat Organization.

Biography
Ben Livshin was born in Liepaja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire on 13 June 1862 to a Jewish family. Livshin studied in Riga and became a convinced socialist, taking part in narodnik demonstrations against the czarist regime. Livshin worked at a textile factory, and he was exiled to Surgut in Siberia from 1885 to 1900 due to leading a strike at the factory. Livshin would join the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1901 and participate in the 1905 Russian Revolution, leading a unit of the SR Combat Organization during the SRs' terrorist campaign against the Russian government. Livshin was arrested by the Okhrana secret police in 1906 and executed by firing squad on 5 November 1906.